Leadership Team

Osabarima Owusu Baafi Aboagye lll

President

Osabarima Owusu Baafi Aboagye lll is the Chief of Akyem Dwenase, Akyem Abuakwa, Ghana.
He is a professor at Boston University, teaching courses on planning and landuse law, and environmental law. He has over 20 years of government and academic experience working with various entities in addressing environmental health issues in communities in Ghana. He is the recipient of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Gold Medal Award, and 2019 Suffolk University Law School Outstanding Graduate of the Last Decade Award. BSc, MCP, Boston University; JD, Suffolk University Law School.

Lee Makowski

CEO

Lee Makowski is Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at Northeastern University, Professor of Chemical and Chemical Biology and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. His previous positions include Director of the Biosciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory, Program Director, National Science Foundation and Director of the Institute for Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University. He has been working with collaborators to address health care concerns in Ghana for the past 6 years.

Sam Burd

COO

Sam has a Northeastern U BS in Mechanical Engineering, and an MBA. He engineered medical & biotech systems earning 19 US patents. Sam has developed devices with Engineers Without Borders for under resourced communities worldwide, lectured 9 years at UC Berkeley on starting & growing entrepreneurial ventures, was CEO of Silicon Valley Instruments, and formed Medical and Biotech Developments, inc. See more at 4mbd.com.

Thelma Asare

Medical Director

Dr Thelma Asare is an obstetrician gynecologist in private practice in Baltimore. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Yale University School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has had a long-standing interest in improving health care in her native country, Ghana.

Francis Agyare

General Council

Francis is an immigration attorney and owner of Agyare Law Group with offices in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and admitted to practice in Ghana. Francis had worked with NH Catholic Charities, as an adjunct professor with the UNH School of Law, and as an Intellectual Property lawyer. He earned his graduate degrees in Molecular Biology and Genetics (York University, Toronto, Canada) after serving 6 years in the Canadian Military.

Marc Fuller

Director of Engineering

Marc Fuller is an electrical engineer who has spent his career in various areas of biomedical engineering both in industry and academia. He has held appointments at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U Mass Medical Center, U of Utah Medical Center, and currently at the Northeastern University Bioengineering Department. He has worked for Siemens Medical, Draeger Medical, and Philips Health Care. He works with students and engineers both at Northeastern and in Ghana on designing medical instruments for the developing world.

Brad Martin

Legal Coucel/CFO

Brad Martin has been practicing law in Massachusetts since 1979 with a focus on entrepreneurial businesses and corporations. In the course of his practice, he has helped form and advise multiple non-profits in their projects both in the US and other countries. Brad serves on several non-profit boards and for 16 years has been an active participant in construction and clean water projects in Central America.